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Description: | Candle-socket from a branched candlestick, with the end of the branching arm. The socket is cast separately in a copper alloy which has now corroded to a very dark green. It is 35 mm tall, and is a cylindrical in shape, slightly flaring towards a maximum diameter of 21 mm at the top. It is decorated with three bands of moulding; a triple band at the top and in the middle, and a double band at the base. Below this it tapers to a projecting stub, with the underside decorated with a circular groove. The stub passes through a hole in the end of the branching arm and is hammered over to retain it in place. The branching arm is very much more flimsy than the socket, which may explain why they rarely survive. It is made from two pieces of copper alloy sheet which have corroded to a paler green colour. Placed one on top of the other, they have been cut into an arm 8 mm wide with a pierced circular terminal 13 mm in diameter. The break is old. Even at double thickness, it is hard to see how this arm could have withstood the pressure of a candle being inserted into the heavy cast socket. These are conventionally dated to the late 15th or early 16th century, but so many are found that it could be suspected that they have a longer currency.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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